The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement.

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.